1. Short Version (100–120 words) — For Gallery Submissions

Rooted in vintage interiors, heirloom objects, aged textiles, and botanical forms, my work examines how the domestic sphere becomes an archive of memory. I use acrylic, ink, pastels, and mixed media on muslin, drapery linens, and other textiles to build layered surfaces where earlier marks remain visible. These traces mirror how memory accumulates, recedes, and resurfaces over time.
Flowers, vintage vessels, and textile-inspired patterns appear as recurring motifs, functioning as carriers of history and care. Through this approach, I create contemporary still life paintings that explore continuity, inheritance, and the quiet endurance of the objects we keep close.

2. Academic / Juried Exhibition Version — More Formal + Conceptual

My practice explores the relationship between material culture, memory, and the domestic interior. Drawing from vintage environments, family heirlooms, aged textiles, and botanical specimens, I examine how objects operate as repositories of personal and collective history. The work is grounded in an investigation of touch—how surfaces record use, how textiles soften and fray, and how the marks left behind become evidence of lived experience.

I work in acrylic, ink, pastels, and mixed media on textile substrates such as dressmakers’ muslin and drapery linens. These materials allow for permeability and layering, enabling earlier gestures to remain visible as palimpsests.
Motifs including flowers, vessels, and textile-based patterning function as symbolic anchors within this inquiry, pointing to continuity, care, and domestic labor. Through this material and conceptual framework, the work positions the still life as a site where memory, identity, and material history intersect.

3. Poetic Version (Website / Artist Bio Page) — Warm + Elevated

My work begins in the spaces we live with the longest: vintage interiors, inherited objects, weathered textiles, and gardens shaped by many hands. I’m drawn to how these things hold memory—how a vessel, a fold in fabric, or a stem of flowers can carry the quiet trace of a life.

Working with acrylic, ink, pastels, and mixed media on muslin and linens, I build layered surfaces that feel like memory itself: shifting, accumulating, revealing what time chooses to keep. Flowers, heirloom vessels, and textile-like patterns return throughout my work as markers of care, inheritance, and belonging.

Through these forms, I explore the gentle endurance of home and the stories held within the things we choose to keep close.